Grave Guard

[horrorshowmalchick]

Hey guys,

I just wondered if folks with more experience than I could answer a
question about everyone's favourite infantry.

Is it ALWAYS, NEVER or SOMETIMES worth paying the extra point to give them great weapons instead of hand weapons and shields?

Does it just depend on what role you have them filling and what you're up against, or is one option just plain better?

tl;dr should I build my grave guard with 2hw or hw+s?

Cheers

 

[eastern barbarian]

always worth to give them 2 handed weapons in my opinion. Doesn't matter that they strike last, in big enough unit you should have enough of them to strike back anyway and s6 with killing blow is awesome!

 

[Bishop]

I'd say almost ALWAYS... 95% or more of the time you will want GWs. Just build them that way!

 

[Bravo_10]

All day, every day. Wounding on 2+ against almost anything is ace. Plus, if you use the Helm of Commandment on them w/ the Banner of the Barrows, you'll hit on 2+ as well. Add in re-rolls from Vanhels, and you're decimating virtually any unit in your path.

 

[Dan_Lee]

I'd also say you should always go with great weapons. Nearly always wounding on 2+ beats a 6+ parry any day.

Great weapons also look cooler.

 

[Skarsnik the Lord]

Yep, great weapons are the way to go when I take Grave Guards.

- Cheers, Skarsnik.

 

[_Revan_]

I agree with using Great Weapons the majority of the time. The way I see it, we have plenty of units that are just fine for competing with rank and file units, however, there are significantly less options for taking down elite units/monsters/calvary etc. To me, Grave Guard with Great Weapons fill that role; it makes them able to deal with threats my Core units can't effectively deal with. Just so happens that the added bonus is that they utterly paste rank and file too...

 

[Mikael.K]

Agree, great weapons 100% of the time. Especially now that mindrazor from shadows got nerfed. Only reason I´d go for hw + shields is for some comp reasons (I can imagine GG with GW´s will take quite the hit in big units).

 

[Lynks]

Agree, great weapons 100% of the time. Especially now that mindrazor from shadows got nerfed. Only reason I´d go for hw + shields is for some comp reasons (I can imagine GG with GW´s will take quite the hit in big units).

GG with Mindrazor are still strength 6. The spell hasnt totally nerfed us, we just cant use it on the usual things like zombies and skeletons. it also works well on a corpse cart *suprise chomp*

 

[Questioner]

I built mine with GW, but I regret it. I find they don't live long enough to use them, whilst the better protection from Swords&Boards helps...

But then, I have only 10.

 

[horrorshowmalchick]

Thanks

 

[Evil Dead]

I would never ever build them with the great weapons from the box. I just can't stand the looks of them. I didn't put the effort in to convert them so I built mine without the shoulder pads and with shields from the regular skeleton box as I like the look of those better than the oversized GG ones.